What current incentive is left for people to publish on the internet?

Discovery mechanisms are less effective than before, people no longer visit your website, copyright is dead and in the end we're just feeding an insatiable machine with slave labour. Or am I missing something ?

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gtsop 2 days ago | parent [-]

What was the initial incentive for people to publish on the internet before ad revenue was a thing?

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righthand 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Information sharing with other humans, not corporations.

	▲	quectophoton 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Likely with some expectation of receiving attribution for your effort, even if only sometimes.

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djeastm 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The incentive was often creating a community around a shared interest. Good luck doing that with AI summaries stopping people from visiting the sites.